Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 27, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27206810
Keywords
chemotaxonomy; fingerprint; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry
Funding
- Alfred Kordelin Foundation
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- Turku University Foundation
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In this study, a chemotaxonomic tool based on UHPLC-MS was developed to identify common Finnish deciduous trees and shrubs from their leaf bud metabolites. The study found that various plant metabolites can serve as good chemotaxonomic markers, with species-specific markers being superior in creating fingerprints.
In this study, a chemotaxonomic tool was created on the basis of ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS) for the identification of 13 common Finnish deciduous trees and shrubs from their leaf bud metabolites. The bud extracts were screened with UHPLC-ESI-QqQ-MS and UHPLC-ESI-Q-Orbitrap-MS to discover suitable markers for each species. Two approaches were tested in the marker selection: (1) unique species-specific markers to obtain selective fingerprints per species and (2) major markers to maximise the sensitivity of the fingerprints. The markers were used to create two selected ion-recording-based fingerprinting tools with UHPLC-ESI-QqQ-MS. The methods were evaluated for their selectivity, repeatability, and robustness in plant species identification by analysing leaf buds from several replicates of each species. The created chemotaxonomic tools were shown to provide unique chromatographic profiles for the studied species in less than 6 min. A variety of plant metabolites, such as flavonoids, triterpenoids, and hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives, were found to serve as good chemotaxonomic markers for the studied species. In 10 out of 13 cases, species-specific markers were superior in creating selective and repeatable fingerprints.
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